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	<title>Mark Smithers &#187; Educational Technology</title>
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		<title>Wrong on so many levels</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/09/04/wrong-on-so-many-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an article in The Age on Tuesday titled ‘Politics wanes on the digital campus’. It was essentially about the changes in university campus life over the last forty years and it was quite an interesting read. What struck me though was the following couple of sentences: “Online lectures make an easy symbol for [...]


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		<title>Selling Solar Panels to Oil Sheiks</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/08/22/selling-solar-panels-to-oil-sheiks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a reflective mood on my Friday evening commute home I tweeted that: .bbpBox21648760374 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1281028705/images/themes/theme14/bg.gif) #131516;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:48px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Being an advocate of #elearning and #edtech in universities is a bit like trying to [...]


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		<title>Response to: &#8216;Anatomy of a PLE&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/07/11/response-to-anatomy-of-a-ple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/07/11/response-to-anatomy-of-a-ple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a response to a blog post by Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth). I tried to post it as a comment but it was too large so here it is instead. Hi Steve, I like your diagrams. For what it&#8217;s worth I firmly believe that the PLE is a combination of tools that are wholly [...]


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		<title>The PLE as a Single Tool and the Issue of Institutional Lock-in</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/07/08/the-ple-as-a-tool-and-institutional-lock-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a very enjoyable evening listening/watching the livestream of the opening unkeynote address at The PLE Conference facilitated by @courosa and @grahamattwell. The format was great, particularly for the tight buggers who didn’t pay the conference fees but were attending remotely from all over the world. Basically they presented a series of questions about [...]


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		<title>Spoken Like a True Non-Academic</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/30/spoken-like-a-true-non-academic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting experience last month, I was asked to participate in focus groups to help a university IT services department develop its IT strategy for the next 5 years. The brief was to help generate ideas for what might be required to inform a five year strategy but we were also asked to [...]


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		<title>A Draft Educational Technology Landscape Map</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/28/a-draft-educational-technology-landscape-map/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/28/a-draft-educational-technology-landscape-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a &#8216;map&#8217;. There are a number of such maps around already. Some of these are [...]


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		<title>A Brief Review of the VDIT (e)learning Environments Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/27/a-brief-review-of-the-vdit-elearning-environments-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday (25th June, 2010) I attended the Victorian Directors of Information Technology (VDIT) (e)Learning Environments Forum which turned out to be a bit like a curate’s egg, good in places. Before I talk about the day, just a bit of background. VDIT is the representative group for the Directors of Information Technology of the [...]


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		<title>The Size of Universities in Australia and the UK</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/27/the-size-of-universities-in-australia-and-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time I have been interested in organisational innovation. At the the moment that is focussed on the way that higher education and universities specifically can adopt and mainstream innovations in eductaional technicology and changing pedgagogy related to the adoption of new technologies. One barrier to innovation adoption may be related to the [...]


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		<title>The Effect of Casualisation in Higher Education on the Adoption of Educational Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/05/16/the-effect-of-casualisation-in-higher-education-on-the-adoption-of-educational-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 09:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was discussing the problem of creating a broader adoption of educational technologies across the university with colleagues when they told me that 50% of the people they have to deal with are employed casually. It was therefore difficult to provide adequate functional and pedagogical training to such staff who were, typically, only employed to [...]


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		<title>The Problem with MOPPs</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/05/16/the-problem-with-mopps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 06:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your university have a minimum online presence policy (MOPP)? Is it successful? I have a bit of a problem with MOPPs. I don’t think they work and, in fact, I think they are counterproductive. Here are my reasons: 1. Command and control Let’s face it universities aren’t corporations and never have been despite what [...]


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